Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
